Course info

Rating

(1415)

Level

Beginner

Updated

Nov 19, 2014

Duration

1h 43m

Description

Throughout this series of JavaScript tutorials we'll learn how to write the programming language from scratch, so you can start creating code of your own. Quick Starts are a series of specially constructed tutorials meant to be followed in sequence and include valuable exercises to reinforce learned concepts.This tutorial assumes no prior programming experience and starts exploring the logic of a language and the concepts needed to write code from the ground up. We'll start by exploring what we can create with JavaScript and then learn how to start creating our own code with the basic building blocks of JavaScript using strings, numbers, booleans, common operators, variables, and control flow. We'll finish the JavaScript training by putting together all the concepts with the creation of a simple zombie text adventure game.While building a project together, you'll be provided with valuable knowledge, and the real power comes from being able to take the techniques you've learned and apply them in a different way to your own work. With this in mind, you'll be presented with an assignment immediately following each volume. These assignments will challenge you to take the skills that you've learned in a particular volume and apply them to a different asset.These tutorials are designed to be taken in sequence so we really encourage you to start with this volume and proceed all the way through to Volume 3, all so you can take advantage of the periodic assignments along the way to get the full learning experience. Software required: Mozilla Firefox.

About the author

Susan is a web design author for Pluralsight. Growing up, Susan was both a passionate artist as well as a computer tech aficionado. When she discovered the world of web development, she found that she could meld those two passions together into something amazing. Soon after, Susan began devoting herself to building beautiful and functional web content for businesses and nonprofits. It was through those experiences Susan developed a fluency for web coding languages.

Section Introduction Transcripts

Introduction and Project OverviewHi. I'm Susan with Digital-Tutors, and this is Quick Start to JavaScript, Volume 1. In this course, we'll start learning how to write JavaScript from scratch. This course assumes no prior experience with JavaScript so we'll start by talking about what we can create with it and also learn the syntax by doing things like creating alerts, doing basic math, and learn some of the basic building blocks of JavaScript like strings, numbers, Booleans, variables, and if else statements. We'll finish up by creating a zombie text adventure game to apply everything we've learned. So, let's get started in our next lesson by learning what JavaScript does.